Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Many of the so-called best Negroes are in a sort of nouveau riche class, so from the snobbishness of their positions they hold the false belief that if the stories of Fisher were only about better class people they would be better stories." As to these "best" Negroes' complaint that their lives are not made the subject of Negro literature, Mr. Hughes thought that they were fortunate in being neglected. For, said he, a "really powerful" story would expose "their pseudo culture, their slavish devotion to Nordic standards, their snobbishness, their detachment from the Negro masses and their vast...
...Sing Sing Death House last week sat Thomas ("Red") Moran, awaiting the electric chair. To visitors, Convict Moran made complaint, lamenting, however, not his fate but his neighbors. On the one hand he is flanked by Convict Julius Gibbs, subject to fits of epilepsy. On the other he has Convict Adam Nappe, who speaks no English, with whom no hours can be whiled away in converse. Disgusted, Convict Moran said: "This is a fine combination to be up against...
...rules of their carpet cleaner contest, that they unexpectedly changed their jury of award, that an award of a gold medal to Eureka had been wrongly changed to the award of the grand prize. The Eureka Co. has done damage to the Hoover concern reads the bill of complaint, "by false advertisements and statements which have been widely circulated by the [Eureka] company in this and foreign countries to the effect that the [Hoover and Eureka] machines had been judged in competition by one or more fair, impartial and competent juries, with exhaustive tests and detailed examinations of the performance...
Here's your check for subscription. After having paid you the money, I feel that I may make one complaint. "All the news" is your maxim. Eugene V. Debs died a while ago and so far as I could find, your paper made not one single mention of him. Wasn't the courage of this man during his lifetime, no matter what you may have thought of his views, a sufficient justification for at least a passing reference to him? Or is TIME'S measure of greatness financial rather than moral...
...proverbial dog with tallow legs being pursued through the nether regions by an asbestos cat is in a better case than the fugitive hope that the Soviet will not give further cause for complaint...